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At her tone, his smile di to her? She just needed time to think!

She tried to march away froed With a curse, she pulled off one, then the other, tossing them to the bank

He must’ve seen this as an invitation to shed his own clothes He dragged the remains of his shirt over his head Faced with the body he was revealing, she couldn’t quite disabuse hiht Sorceri were hedonists?” Off went his own boots “We’re in a plane devoted solely to pleasure You should be gladdened”

“If we lose control and have sex, it would be disastrous! I nant” She could ask hiin would have the willpower necessary—especially when his instinct would be cla for him to break his demon seal and spill his seed

He closed in on her “Would it be so bad to have a child with me?”

“You ung-ho about having kids and all But totrapped” She reeneral The odds of it happening were overwhel-ho as I was,” he said “Before, I thought our young would be the only thing we had in co them our sole occupation Now I’ve realized there’s roin, to the stiff shaft straining against his sodden breeches

In a heartbeat’s time, she was just as aroused “Like sex?” Typical !

“Not only sex You could teach et We could travel over real worlds” With each of his deep raspy words, her willpoindled “You liked exploring with me, didn’t you?”

She had Their wild-and-woolly adventure in Pandemonia had exhilarated pampered Lanthe

But there was more to consider! “What about our history? Our families? The war between our factions? We haven’t resolved anything between us” Even as she expressed her worries, her hand had begun stroking his length

“We will,” he said, biting back a groan “But now is not that ti Pande pleasure between us would be like squandering our coins” He curled his finger under her chin “And that’s so we don’t do”

Irresistible de hold Still she fought it “Turning retted it iics here, hoe ever escape?”

“Once we’ve burned off the worst of the lust, you can persuade me to feel no Feveris effects I’ll keep us focused until you can create another portal”

“And again, you want me to use my power on you”

“We don’t have a choice I’ control For now, lose it with e across her entire shoulder What the hell? But when she glanced down there was no otten when he reached for her breastplate, unfastening the clips

He tugged off the piece, tossing it to shore like a Frisbee

Sunlighttoward the wars receded like the lazy waves of the nearby sea

When her brsts bobbed with heralike I want this” With his black claws curling, he reached for her skirt It soon joined her breastplate “I must claim my beautiful mate” He tried to reave way

Once she was stripped of everything but her necklace, his eyes roaaze fro with the laces

How nervous he must be! Did he worry how he’d measure up to her past lovers? Despite his uneasiness, he wore his determined look He knehat he wanted—and he kneas about to get it

He shoved off his breeches, lobbing the a fwap sound

And then he was nakd Mist fro to his lean muscles Just beneath the surface, Lanthe could see his shaft pulsing

She probed his thoughts, finding his blocks wide open He craved to feel her sex, to taste it

To clais

Maybe they could just release so?

She stiffened when she felt pain on her forearm, like a fresh burn She broke away to search for a ” Probably residual hell-plane stress “Absolutely nothing”

He looked to say ers around it, which apparently robbed hiht His lips parted, and he couldn’t keep frorip

When she traced her thumb across the taut head, his shaft jerked in her pal,” she said as she fondled hie: “Fe”

“Only if they’re prepared for it, and it’s deployed properly”

Worry creased his brow “How should I prepare you?”

“I’ll etto feel that way

She continued to stroke him as he rocked to her fist, but when she cupped his testicles, he went stock-still “Melanthe,” he grated, grasping her wrist to stay her hand “I’veto do to you I want to last”

“H at her eyes, she knew theyyou?”

“Bite off your foreclaw”

Without a word, he did

She took his hand in both of hers When she guided his forefinger into her core, his lids went heavy Eyes on his, she gave a soft moan